Uselessness: Humankind`s most valuable tool?, Luciano Parodi, Michelle Howard
Автор: Yuval Noah Harari Название: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ISBN: 0062316095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062316097 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 3919.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
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A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?
Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.
Описание: Survivors of trauma, loss, illness, abuse, stress, and depression can face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. But today, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that horses play a crucial role in therapy for those struggling with significant psychological and emotional challenges. Horses respond to angry, inhibited, heartbroken, defiant, terrified clients in many different ways, often breaking through defensive barriers via their physical presence, or by pointing to areas of psychological distress not immediately apparent. The horse's response guides the treatment team, as well as the client, in the healing process. Inspired by her own childhood trauma when she spent seven days in a coma, awakened to a severely compromised body and brain, and rebuilt her life with the help of a horse, Michelle Holling-Brooks founded Unbridled Change, a non-profit equine-partnered therapy organization that helps match horses to individuals in need. Here she shares the amazing stories of the horses that play active roles in counseling sessions: Ashley was locked in closets as punishment, and physically and sexually abused, resulting in an angry and violent child who threatened her adoptive family--until she met Cocoa and Radar, the horses that helped her learn to trust again. Brenda was diagnosed bipolar and lived through humiliating domestic abuse, but three horses--Delilah, Wisky, and Diesel--helped her establish a sense of self-worth, hope for the future, and ultimately, the will to go on. Nick was an angry, suicidal veteran with combat PTSD, who eventually acknowledged, "The horses literally saved my life." Meet the Horse Counselors.
Автор: Brown Charles S. Название: Whither Cometh Humankind? ISBN: 0958281327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780958281324 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1362.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Creation versus Evolution: The great debate that rages on. Theory after theory after theory is proposed, with not even a hint of "middle ground" from either of the two opposing camps. To not be able to come to a definitive answer or conclusion for our human origins quite simply means that "they" do not know. It's all guesswork. The clear reality for both sides of this ultimately foolish and corrosive debate is that we humans are here on earth. We exist, we are here. Descartes: "I think, therefore I am." So irrespective of Bible Scripture, theological musing, empirical scientific skepticism or any other notion, the very fact that we are here on earth very logically means that only one process - obviously the same for all races - actually brought it about. Moreover, to decide or conclude that we "can never really know" is a nonsense-notion. For it is not possible for a question to not have an answer. Of course we can know. Is that not our purpose on earth; to know? If not, what is the point? The crucial Bible Scripture: "BUT MAN BECAME A LIFE-CONTAINING SOUL" - actually provides the key for both science and Christian fundamentalism. It reveals that the quantum leap from primate to human was not one given life by human genetics through simple 'brain development' by normal but slow 'evolutionary processes'. It was a quantum leap precisely because a new and very different Life-force and power was required for humans to be human, completely distinct and very far removed from the animal primate. The Bible thus notates and explains the "human/chimp split" a very long time before science reared its oftentimes strange head on earth. Moreover, that absolutely necessary change therefore precluded any possibility for primates to simply evolve into humans The 98.4 percent of similar DNA in both monkey and man thus concerns the respective physical bodies only. And that is why they - the genes and the respective types of bodies - both rot away at death. We are not our physical body Notwithstanding that ultimate reality, there was still the necessity for evolutionary development of that material form. Thus: "...evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true... The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome." Dr. Francis S. Collins. M.D. Ph.D. The sticking point in this whole debate is perhaps not actually that of Creation versus Evolution, but probably more that of the time-frame required for both together For if a time period for such a thing as "Evolutionary-Creation" can be logically established then both viewpoints can be accommodated in perfect harmony. In our view, therefore, the one key question in this debate that must be considered - yet rarely is - is: "Can Creation also be Evolution?" And/or vice-versa? Our reply is an unequivocal: - Yes, it can. And, moreover, it is The ongoing problem in this case is one of incorrect interpretation. SO: WHAT IS THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION? The correct interpretation lies in recognising the fundamental differences between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of The Book of Genesis. The misinterpretation from Christian orthodoxy thus lies in attempting to ascribe two very different processes - one, Creation, the other, primarily Evolution - to a singular, 7 earth-day, Creation time-frame in Chapter 1, and attempting to also include in that time-frame the completely separate processes that Chapter 2 explains. That includes the erroneous belief that the First Creation of Man - both male and female - refers to man on Earth. The Christian Church, earthly science and committees of PhD and degree-toting Bible "scholars" are the "triune" of earthly power and defective education which persistently clings to, and continues to intellectually debate, this ridiculous and corrosive divide. Backing the so-called "expert" opinions and Bible translations, the main Bible Publishers continue to reproduce the same appalling errors.
Автор: Diederik Aerts; Jan Broekaert; Willy Weyns Название: A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature ISBN: 9401037418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401037419 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change.
Автор: Robert Archambeau Название: Poetry and Uselessness: From Coleridge to Ashbery ISBN: 0367207362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367207366 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerful-and useful-idea.
Описание: Oscar Wilde's famous quip "All art is quite useless" might not be as outrageous or demonstrably false as is often supposed. No-one denies that much art begins life with practical aims in mind: religious, moral, political, propagandistic, or the aggrandising of its subjects. But those works that survive the test of time will move into contexts where for new audiences any initial instrumental values recede and the works come to be valued "for their own sake". The book explores this idea and its ramifications. The glorious Palaeolithic paintings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave present a stark example. In spite of total ignorance of their original purposes, we irresistibly describe the paintings as works of art and value them as such. Here we are at the very limits of what is meant by "art" and "aesthetic appreciation". Are we misusing these terms in such an application? The question goes to the heart of the scope and ambition of aesthetics. Must aesthetics in its pursuit of art and beauty inevitably be culture-bound? Or can it transcend cultural differences and speak meaningfully of universal values: timelessly human not merely historically relative? The case of literature or film puts further pressure on the idea of art valued "for its own sake". Characters in works of literature and film or finely-honed emotions in poetry often give pleasure precisely because they resonate with our own lives and seem (in the great works) to say something profound about human existence. Is not this kind of insight why we value such works? Yet the conclusion is not quite as clear-cut as it might seem and the idea of valuing something "for its own sake" never quite goes away.
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